About DangerRanger / M 2  

These photos are a collection of moments frozen in time and place. The primary purpose of this site is documentation of events and experiences.
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My 20 years with Burning Man has produced most of the imagery, generated many ideas and spawned several websites.
In 1991, I drove the first 'art car' to Burning Man:
www.flickr.com/photos/lardnanny/1076104554/
In 1992, organized the Black Rock Rangers:
www.blackrockrangers.org
an idea which eventually began to grow:
www.rangers.org

In 1995, I developed the Black Rock Rangers logo, a design which was later trademarked as the Burning Man community symbol:
images.burningman.com/index.cgi?image=5378&results=29...

In 1997, I began the Burning Man transpo & storage system by acquiring the first shipping container for the Rangers. Ten years later, there were over 100 shipping containers in the Burning Man fleet and container #ZERO became an art project:
www.flickr.com/photos/10111/sets/72157601672879332/
Advocating the use of containers for artists, I was one of the first tenants at The Boxshop in San Francisco, and at The Shipyard in Berkeley:
www.theshipyard.org/

I have also been involved with other technical projects. Here is another bio related to that world:
www.escapefromberkeley.com/?page_id=76

In 2001, I took the burning idea on a roadtrip, which was the first seed of the Regionals program:
roadtrip.burningman.com/
and that year, reported my experiences at Black Rock:
www.blackrock2001.com/
which predated and inspired the 2009 launch of the Burning Man Blog:
blog.burningman.com/?p=3508

In 2005, I was a member of the BORG2 rebellion, which launched an invasion that reinvigorated the art at Burning Man.
www.flickr.com/photos/mybloodyself/158458642/
You had to be there. It all started with a petition:
www.whatiamupto.com/BORG2/Petition.htm

My interest in fire and machines was fueled as member of Survival Research Labs during the years 1992 to 1997:
srl.org/
I worked the historic Crimewave show when Mark Pauline got arrested:
www.flickr.com/photos/10111/368391132/

In 1997, I assisted with the installation of furniture on the side of an abandoned building:
www.defenestration.org/

My 12 years as an event organizer with the Cacophony Society has also contributed greatly:
www.cacophony.org/
and led to the destruction of 500 television sets on Oct 22, 1994:
www.zpub.com/caco/kill1.html
and then, a month later, I helped launch another culture jamming institution:
santarchy.com/
which invaded the virtual world on Dec 9, 2007:
www.flickr.com/groups/virtualsantarchy/
Other traditions got started during this era, including:
www.bridesofmarch.org
and:
www.flickr.com/groups/postyulepyre/pool/

In 2008, I established Burning Life as the first official Burning Man Regional event in the virtual world:
burninglife.secondlife.com/

In 2009 I gave the Burning Opera it's name and became involved in its production:
www.burningopera.com/

Add to this my interest in costumes, art cars, abandoned buildings, technology, robotics, communications and consciousness. I have many computers, no television set, and the only sports I watch are those that I am participating in. I have been removing the labels from my underwear long before Cayce Pollard.

But by far the most intense images in my collection are those recorded only in the memory of experience.

I strive to maintain a high signal to noise ratio on the Danger Twitterblog:
twitter.com/danger_ranger/

(Researchers interested in printed and written material can find my Cacophony Society archive in the San Francisco Main Library, and my Burning Man archive in the Bancroft Library in Berkeley.)